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Originally Posted by Thad House
....., but it you can outscore it your time is better spent just making your own stacks.
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Very much so... It really depends on your (and your alliance's) robot's capabilities. We put too much effort into working with the other side in our first event to make the coopertition points happen and it ended up costing us a lot of time - and points. If you have a strong stacking robot (like yours), it makes a whole lot of sense to have a weaker partner handle the coopertition. Of course, that creates a certain level of unreliability in the creation of that stack. This is where we got burned a little last time: We were relying on the other side to do teh job and, in the meantime, our path got blocked by noodles, totes, etc. and/or the other side couldn't do it, etc.
However, because we have a nice autonomous stack (should be very reliable at our next event), the totes will be sitting right in front of us at the beginning of teleop and the first thing we have to do anyhow is move them out of the way. It will take less than 15 seconds to put them on the step - which is well faster than we can build a stack... Moreover, if a weaker partner were to come and retrieve them, they'd likely interfere with our stacking anyhow, slowing us down. This will make it well worth it for us to do the coopertition for our team...